monday after leaving the room

 

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Saw the cleaning lady who had helped carry my pack to Strath. from Numurkah & talked for a bit.

She took my blog url, glad for her support so far.

A mate from near home rang to talk about teaching and publishing, & we talked half way to my lunch beak. Put my feet up at the back of the Yarroweyah bus shelter for 30 min, with food and drink. 

Off again, & followed the abandoned railway line on the right of the road, from…just outside Yarroweyah - most of the way to Cobram,

then popped into Mitre 10 to get a trolley, and 10 L water container etc.

A mate rang me as I arrived in Cobram, he and his extended family had welcomed me in like an angel down at Woodend, and let me join in their family life. He had lost his brother, whom i met and drove down to hospital in Melbourne, to cancer 2 weeks ago and the funeral is tomorrow. We talked. He's doing ok. I said I'll send him something by text for the funeral or wake etc, to be read or used as he deems best.

Rang as I put the trolley together, and booked into the Charles Sturt Motor Inn, for $125.00, good italian food over the road.

I needed a big screw driver and a spanner to put the trolley together. Mitre 10 staff loaned me a screw driver, bought a spanner. Took about an hour. The solid wheel hubs were slightly too fat, so had to return them, and buy some "slime" and fill each tyre with it. Got in around 6pm, & mentioned that I needed a plastic cover for the cardboard box I got the trolley in, which I'm using as a cargo cover. The Motel man got me a couple of garbags. They should do the trick! Went into my room, and put my feet up… wrote this. Now for a shower, & go over the road for a feed. Have to consider swag/ tent & sleeping bag, and maybe food, (bought a 10litre water bottle today) for tomorrow.

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OLD TO NEW WORLD VIEW

Despite that science tells us "This world is

not what it seems on outside, to the feel,

with layers upon layers forming things",

I still believe that our ol' world is real.

Our scientific story tells us that

despite what we all see here (think we "know"),

there's layers of "community" which mat

together, and which interleave.. (quite so):《1》

Inside, within each body, making up

the living ones, are individu'l "cells",

or living creatures that can be corrupt-

ed, or combined to make a host where dwells

the multicelled "community" we see

that's planted right before us "on" (or "in")

our ground of being. Even you and me.

And these can be disrupted or can win!

The ways that these communities would seize

things 'round about to aid their tiny parts,

to work together: shelter, feed, and ease

their life, to bring a thriving from their starts,

are called in this Our world "to feed", & "clothe

and shelter", self or fam'ly, other lives.

The old words from Our world that covered both

are "love", & then there's "peace"- which meant "life thrives".

But smaller yet, each body that exists,

of rocks, or gasses, animals or plants;

(and irrespective of "life" tagged to its

existence as an entity, per chance..)

is made of smaller atoms, molecules,

or other things that kind of are like "seas".

But smaller yet (these aren't just words of fools)

are forces "circling", balancing with ease.

Where either particles or waves "impart"

existence to those higher levels too.

But here we haven't even made a start

on bigger things, like Galaxies and U-

ni-verse, or other categ'ries rehearsed,

like Supernova, Nebulae, and Giants,

Dwarves, and other stars that shoot and burst,

to cook up compounds, elements and ions

from which all of the rest can start to "be".

Invisible dimensions in this way

we start to understand, and maybe "see"

within our "mind's eye" - as they used to say.

But still our story makes more sense, or less

of all dimensions we've encountered here,

since we were born - to order and to mess,

with this ol' world. - And this is where I cheer

myself as I move on, and others too.

The world we "started" in, that let us learn

about dimensions and these worlds that you

have just now been reminded of, don't spearn!

The story that's apparent: God made this

whole world with more dimensions than you'd poke

at with a stick, does not seem so remiss

and starts to look less like it was a joke!

"The best is yet to come", as AA found

in fact, through living in this re-al world.

And there's a higher power hanging round

to see if we would reach out and be curled

within the love of biggest Dad, or Mum,

and let the Great Creator's fam-il-y

look after us and grow us, and then some..

towards more of a nature that is free

to love back, as we have ourselves been loved.

And that's why most religions in this world

admire, and think good-life was surely gloved

within the life, that we have mostly hurled

our insults at, and blamed him for our faults

and misdemeanours, laziness, and such.

It's him I would commend to you. Us dolts,

we killed the model human God loved much -

the second Adarm (and would kill his Eve,

that God brings from him while he's "not around").

In jealousy and ignorance, we'd weave

a net to catch them yet, like beasts been found

and named. So if you ask me to I'll tell

the story of the glory of God "THERE",

who loves his kids, and wants them to do well,

take on creative love, and learn to share.

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《1》 physically enact this by interleaving the fingers from each hand with those of the other

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